MGQ3 First Patch Date

July 15, 2013

I’m planning on releasing the first patch on Wednesday night (7/17), from around 6 to 8pm EST. It will cover everything from the start of Part 3 until a little over a third into the game. It includes the two patches that Torotoro has released so far. It also contains all of Part 1 and Part 2 for combining them all into one, but I haven’t exhaustively gone through the first 2 parts of the game with this combination yet, so random bugs may occur in those first 2 parts until I have a better chance of testing through them.

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I left a comment in the previous post literally just ONE second before this one (about how many fights there would approximately be, just so that I could get a feel on how much I will have progressed, in order to make it last a little). Thanks for clearing that up so quickly.

Wasn’t it possible to merge the games together so you could play it the full story from one exe?
I think it was possible with 1 and 2, hope it will be possible with the third.
kinda wanna do the story from the beginning.

Actually, I have a question. With a yes or a no,could someone tell me if the Lazarus flag where you decide to kill or let him off is actually used? And if so which one is “better?”

I have a save at the Lazarus choice, and one at Alice with either chosen, and want to know which would give me a more full experience on my first playthrough. Please no spoilers other than direct answers to the questions though.

Does the patch automatically combine all three parts? I’m curious because my save data unfortunately got corrupted when I transferred it to a a new computer and I would prefer not playing through all of part 1 and 2 again.

The combine part feature has no bearing on your saves. It combines the arc.nsa files and unlocks the prior chapters/monsters to be accessible from the MGQ3 exe. If you still have the actual games you’ll be able to combine them. After combining, you can still choose to start from the beginning of MGQ3 whether you’ve beaten the first two or not.

The import save feature you’re SOL if your saves got corrupted though. That keeps track of your record and the stats inside the monsterpedia. If you don’t care about that, there’s not much else to it.

Rogue’s patch has never done anything aside from translate the games, and I’d assume that’s the case here. There’s been instructions on how to combine the games in the readme he adds IIRC, but the actual feature is a part of the game.

It’s probably a matter of copying the older arc.nsas to the same folder, then selecting an option in the menu within the game. Rather, that was how I remember it for combining 1&2, so I assume it’s the same for 3. Most of us have 1&2 combined now.

I am certain Rogue will mention instructions in the actual patch release post. It will be an easy process however I am sure. I don’t remember where my final save is, I probably saved after getting the “good” ending with Alice because that seems to be the canon one. So I will pick up MGQ3 right from there. Even though it’s a simple game I bet I’ve forgotten how to play it anyhow.

There is no canon bad ending, just the one good one. The only way you can add the flag for MGQ2 is after sparing Alice and turning your blade on Illias. Eternally raped by Illias is just another game over.

It just seems like an ending to the game since it’s a logical stopping point. It’s not a logical stopping point once there’s another game ahead though.

Why would a company make an obscure item that requires playing two earlier titles in a specific way necessary for a third game that’s being sold as a standalone title?

Maybe I’m out of the loop since I haven’t played a lot of recent titles, but is there some kind of carryover between games fad that I’m missing? So many people are scared of missing stuff. MGQ2 plays out exactly the same whether you got the items for the Hero Proof in one or not. You just miss a couple lines of dialogue and an achievement in the record.

If games like Mass Effect barely/don’t change based on the radically different stuff you can do, why would MGQ?

I think a lot of people just want to be completionists but are also too lazy to replay games, even if they say they like them. Of course you are right, the only difference will be dialogue changes and it will be small.

Still, people like maximizing those changes. The only other 2 games I remember where saves carried over are Dragon Age Origins to Awakening and the Suikoden series, although by the time they got to III it didn’t really do anything and after that one I don’t think they ever carried it over again. I believe there is a PC game or two coming out in the future that will also use carry over (and I’m sure ME had it because you listed it).

Mass Effect had a lot of fan outrage because there were all kinds of promises/allusions (I forget which,) that your choices throughout the first two games would really matter later, but it’s just basically dialogue stuff. And the stuff you do in Mass Effect can be radically different from run to run, a lot more than something like the Hero Proof, which Luka points out as useless in MGQ2 since Alice already destroyed the sword.

I get people wanting to see everything, but they should just play through MGQ2 again going back to every city after each set of battles instead of worrying about carryover. There are a lot of cool missable scenes. I wonder how many people have had orange juice with Lazarus.

I don’t remember doing that either. I go back to towns sometimes but not always, also iirc after you go to each new continent you can’t go back to the old areas. Eventually someone will need to put up a guide on the missable stuff I suppose. Maybe there already is one. I really should hang out at MGU.

The second Lazarus scene is after either the Pyramid or Witch Hunt Village, but before Gnome. You chat with him in the Mermaid Pub.

You’re not really missing anything. That’s probably the most important missable scene plotwise, but it doesn’t change anything. The other stuff is finding out things like Yamata no Orochi being held at the snake shrine at Yamatai until she repents and Queen Bee not being unsealed at Plansect since she still wants to fight.

I’d suggest revisiting towns before moving regions if you like that kind of stuff though.

You start with a fresh copy of MGQ3 and copy in arc.nsa from MGQ1 and arc1.nsa from MGQ2. If you can play through the MGQ1 content in your copy of MGQ2 then that means you’ve already pasted MGQ1’s arc.nsa into MGQ2. So you’ll just need to copy that same file as well as arc1.nsa over to MGQ3.

On behalf of the Anonymous community, I, Anonymous, do so declare that Rogue is, was, and forever shall be a badass, alpha male, and above all else, an overall cool guy. Many thanks for doing these translations Rogue, as you both gave birth to and nurtured my now uncontrollable teratophilia.

This is good news. Although I think I’ll ignore part 3 until I’m done with my own fic writing. Otherwise I could make a mess of things.

Speaking of Monster Girl Saga, I temporarily sidelined chapter 12 because I got a sudden bout of inspiration for some sexy scenes from later on – particularly one featuring Alma Elma. I know that writing scenes out of order isn’t usually a good idea, but the sudden inspiration I got shouldn’t be wasted, so I decided to write those ideas down and resume chapter 12 after I’m done.

i’m reading the first chapter right now :D
by the way, i just downloaded the full save for part 1 and 2 (i missed some techniques from some random monsters) and, only by luck, i saw the secret monster (doppelganger) in the monsterpedia. really nice, rogue :p

Hahaha, well, good to know you don’t mind long chapters. I tend to lose track of length when I enjoy myself writing. Take that Alma Elma scene I’m writing for later… it’s already several pages long, lol.

Don’t know if someone asked this already, but one of the updates for part 2 (I think it was the monster brothel one) made previous saves invalid. will part 3 use the original saves, or the modified ones from after the update?

“It also contains all of Part 1 and Part 2 for combining them all into one, but I haven’t exhaustively gone through the first 2 parts of the game with this combination yet, so random bugs may occur in those first 2 parts until I have a better chance of testing through them.”

I was actually planning on playing from Part 1 to Part 3 again once the first patch was released. Will post here if I run into any bugs.

Gah, my body is, sadly, not ready.
Replaying all of Part 1 and 2 in preparation for this has left the spirit willing, but the flesh spongy and bruised.
Still, can’t wait! Thank you for all your work, Rogue!

Will there be save points in the middle of the final boss battle, as it takes over an hour to finish.
And if you make a mistake in the usage of skills, you will be slaughtered. There is dialogue at several points in the middle as well.

am trying to wait until there is a hundred percent translation but no matter what i do i keep ending p back on this page thinking maybe i could just try out this 1\3 translation its killing me! love this game

I see a time lapse for the patch, does that mean that we only have a window of opportunity tonight to get the first part? Awww man…Wednesday nights are never good for me. :P Good work on the awesome translation speed Rogue. Thanks a lot!

Who is saying he is doing it consecutively? Just do it three times a day(not really hard, right). It would be more boring and tedious instead of challenging though, so I don´t see an appeal either. Fapping to each single monster would be tricky enough, as I don´t like everything(Insects? Lady Village?)

I wouldn’t put the Cobra Girl in the same category as the others. She’s in the cruel and heartlessly killing you category, but at least you get to try (and fail,) to endure sex to save Sara in the meantime. I’d sub the Roper Girl in for her.

So for those of you who have played through part 3, att he part in the elf village where lots of talking goes down you see a bunch of shadowed out characters while they are talking. Im not sure if it has already been mentioned but one of them looks very much like the first monster shown in the ??? on the monster girl quest page.